Robert Ashton is a social entrepreneur, business author, speaker and campaigner for common sense. Once described by Hazel Blears as ‘human WD40’ he converts friction between organisations into collaborations that deliver positive, sustainable social change.His own social enterprise Swarm Apprenticeships uses enterprise qualifications to connect young people with attitude and business owners with aspiration. He is also the Cooperative College appointed Board member of Trust Norfolk SEN, a cooperative trust comprising Norfolk’s 11 complex needs schools.

In all his work, Robert strives to help people, organisations and communities overcome the barriers that the prejudice of others place between them and their goals. He is apolitical and areligious and has personal experience of many of the social issues he strives today to challenge.

In 45 minutes Robert’s session will help students:

Understand how our society is increasingly an inter-related network, where even the smallest action here, can create a large reaction elsewhere;

Recognise that individually & collectively, they can create the future they want for themselves;

Pick up some very practical techniques that will build their entrepreneurial confidence and spur them on the set and realise audacious personal goals.